[It never sank in as real, that killing him meant losing him forever. Even though they all knew from the start: people die when they're killed.

Except the way they'd learned to learn and kill - 'killing' wasn't the same as 'taking a life'. Nagisa had thoroughly killed Takaoka, twice even, but left the man still breathing.]

At least....we got to sing him happy birthday first.... [It was such a small thing. But-- But it was important.]